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You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
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When there is peace in the country, the chief does not carry a shield.
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He who marries a beauty marries trouble.
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A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.
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Poverty is slavery.
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Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true.
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Beauty is not sold and eaten
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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something
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If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.
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Lack of money is lack of friends; if you have money at your disposal, every dog and goat will claim to be related to you
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